The European Council on Foreign Relations

Reinventing Europe: Harold James

Date: 18th January 2012  |  Author: Harold James ,

Categories: Euro Crisis, Reinventing Europe,

As part of ECFR's 'Reinvention of Europe' project, we are running a series of responses from leading thinkers and academics to Mark Leonard's recent paper, 'Four scenarios for the reinvention of Europe'. The paper outlined four possible routes towards solving Europe's current crisis, and argued that Europe's main challenge was to solve the acute euro crisis without exacerbating the chronic crisis of declining European power. In the first in this series of responses, we hear from Harold James of Princeton and the European University Institute.

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Mark Leonard offers a telling analysis of Europe’s contemporary crisis in terms of both – as he puts it – the necessity and the impossibility of integration. Inevitably the diagnosis is more precise than the proposed menu of cures, and indeed if he is really sincere in his “impossibility” thesis there simply cannot be a cure and the

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